BURLINGTON – Bengals linebacker Ahmad Brooks has been charged with punching a Florence woman in the left eye.
Brooks, who lives in Union, has been summoned to appear June 6 in Boone District Court to answer to the charge of misdemeanor assault, punishable by up to a year in the jail.
Destiny Rosich gave a sworn statement Wednesday that Brooks was arguing outside her neighbor’s home on April 9 in the 7600 block of Banklick Street. She said her children were outside playing and began to cry because Brooks and the neighbor were about to start a fistfight.
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Brooks told the neighbor that he was going to “split his head open,” Rosich wrote in her statement.
That when she “nicely approached” Brooks and asked him to stop and “take it somewhere else,” according to the statement.

“He then pulled back his fist and struck (punched) me in the left eye,” Rosich wrote. “I then fell and blacked out.”

When Rosich gained consciousness, she grabbed her children, ran inside her home, called 911 and was taken to an area emergency room.

Rosich’s attorney, Gary Franke of Cincinnati, said he had no comment at this time.

Florence police spokesman John McDermond confirmed that officers responded to the scene after the fight. He said the incident is considered a fourth-degree assault and that officers have to witness it to make an arrest.

McDermond said officers’ involvement was limited to explaining to Rosich how to fill out a criminal summons.

“Our policy is that it’s not appropriate to comment on legal proceedings in which there is no ruling,” Bengals spokesman Jack Brennan said.

Brooks, a 6-foot-3, 259-pound middle linebacker, is approaching his third NFL season.

The 24-year-old came to Cincinnati by way of the University of Virginia. Amid allegations of marijuana use, he was kicked off the football team and forced to enter the NFL’s supplemental draft, according to Enquirer archives.

The Bengals took him in the third-round of that draft in July of 2006.

He had 46 tackles with one sack, two passes defensed, and a special teams tackle during the 2006 season.

Brooks’ second NFL season was cut short after he suffered a groin injury Sept. 16 at Cleveland. He was inactive for Games 3 through 8, and was placed on the season-ending injured reserve list Nov. 7.

There was no immediate reaction from the Bengals other than a statement issued by club spokesman Jack Brennan: “Our policy is that it’s not appropriate to comment on legal proceedings in which there is no ruling.”

PsychoWard

05-01-2008, 07:03 PM

wow unbeliveable!!!! how would any man punch a woman in the eye let alone a 6-3 270 pound linebacker!!! that is ****ed up he doesn't not deserve to be in the nfl and should be in jail!!!!!!

Stlrs4Life

05-09-2008, 12:02 AM

They will never learn:

Bengals | Team signs Purify
Thu, 8 May 2008 13:44:25 -0700

The Cincinnati Bengals signed undrafted rookie free-agent WR Maurice Purify (Nebraska) to a two-year deal Thursday, May 8. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Was arrested in '06 on two counts of assault and one count of resisting arrest and then just five weeks later he was arrested again for suspicion of drunken driving

KSSteelerfan

05-09-2008, 12:54 AM

How cowardly to punch a woman in the face like that...........:cursin:

Forged in Steel

05-09-2008, 12:59 PM

How many Bengals players have been arrested so far? Like the whole team?

steelcityrockers

05-10-2008, 12:34 AM

I want to say 11 in the last 2 years. Could be wrong.

K Train

05-10-2008, 12:49 AM

you all call for his head but our women beaters are ok? lol

TEEMONT

05-10-2008, 03:26 AM

you all call for his head but our women beaters are ok? lol

I dont think one person on this site was on Silverbacks side before all the facts came out.

Ced coulda got beaten by a chick and I still woulda wanted him off of the team.